No. 653 Squadron AAC

No. 653 Squadron AAC
Active	11 May 1958 – 19 Oct 1967 1 Nov 1971 – present
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Army Air Corps
Part of	3 Regiment Army Air Corps 16 Air Assault Brigade
Base	Wattisham Airfield
Motto(s)	Latin: Ubique Speculabundus (Translation: "The eyes of the guns are everywhere")
Insignia
Squadron badge heraldry	In front of two gun barrels in saltire, an eagle's head affrontée erased
Aircraft flown
Helicopter	AgustaWestland Apache AH.1

No. 653 Squadron AAC is a squadron of the British Army's Army Air Corps (AAC).

History

The squadron served in Aden from 9 March 1961 until 1967.

The squadron operates the Apache AH.1 from Wattisham Airfield.^[1] It will be the Apache Conversion Squadron after 2015.^[2]

Airfields

Regular units

1 Regiment	No. 652 Squadron AAC No. 661 Squadron AAC

3 Regiment	No. 653 Squadron AAC No. 662 Squadron AAC No. 663 Squadron AAC

4 Regiment	No. 656 Squadron AAC No. 664 Squadron AAC

5 Regiment	No. 651 Squadron AAC No. 665 Squadron AAC

9 Regiment	No. 659 Squadron AAC No. 669 Squadron AAC No. 672 Squadron AAC

Army reserve units

6 Regiment	No. 675 (The Rifles) Squadron AAC No. 677 (Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry) Squadron AAC No. 678 (The Rifles) Squadron AAC No. 679 (The Duke of Connaught's) Squadron AAC

Training units

2 (Training) Regiment	No. 668 (Training) Squadron AAC No. 676 Squadron AAC

7 (Training) Regiment	No. 670 Squadron AAC No. 671 Squadron AAC No. 673 Squadron AAC No. 25 Flight AAC (Kenya)

Other

Independent Flights

Independent Squadrons

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